Sociology and anthropology Books
The University of Chicago Press Imaginative Horizons
Book SynopsisVincent Crapanzano offers a powerful way to think about human experience: the nition of imaginative horizons. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and how we interpret those experiences.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press The Cognitive Paradigm
Book SynopsisIn this study of the cognitive paradigm, De Mey applies the study of computer models of human perception to the philosophy and sociology of science.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press The Bedtrick
Book SynopsisBrings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the items in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people get into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands.Trade Review"Doniger seduces the reader with her casual erudition, tempering the dizzying accumulation of evidence with wry asides." - Edward Rothstein, New York Times "A triumph.... The numerous glittering parts of The Bedtrick are ultimately held together by the unanswerable, endlessly fascinating questions to which it keeps returning." - Katharine Eisaman Maus, Times Literary Supplement"
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Emile Durkheim on Institutional Analysis
Book SynopsisRanging from Durkheim's original lecture in sociology to an excerpt from the work incomplete at his death, these selections illuminate his multiple approaches to the crucial concept of social solidarity and the study of institutions as diverse as the law, morality, and the family.
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The University of Chicago Press Free Spaces The Sources of Democratic Change in
Book SynopsisWhat are the environments, the public spaces, in which ordinary people become participants in the complex, ambiguous, engaging conversation about democracy: participators in governance rather than spectators or complainers, victims or accomplices? What are the roots, not simply of movements against oppression, but also of those democratic social movements which both enlarge the opportunities for participation and enhance people's ability to participate in the public world? In Free Spaces, Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte argue for a new understanding of the foundations for democratic politics by analyzing the settings in which people learn to participate in democracy. In their new Introduction, the authors link the concept of free spaces to recent theoretical discussions about community, public life, civil society, and social movements.
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The University of Chicago Press The Common Place of Law Stories from Everyday
Book SynopsisThis study explores the different ways people view the law. It identifies three common narratives: one is based on the idea of the law as magisterial and remote; another views the law as a game to be played; and a third narrative describes the law as an arbitrary power to be actively resisted.
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The University of Chicago Press A Second Chicago School
Book SynopsisFrom 1945 to 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of students whose work has come to define a second Chicago School of sociology. In this book, sociologists critically confront this legacy and discuss the internal conflicts that call into question the idea of a unified school.Table of ContentsPreface Joseph Gusfield Introduction: A Second Chicago School? The Development of a Postwar American Sociology Gary Alan Fine 1: Elaboration, Revision, Polemic, and Progress in the Second Chicago School Paul Colomy, J. David Brown. 2: Research Methods and the Second Chicago School Jennifer Platt 3: The Ethnographic Present: Images of Institutional Control in Second-School Research Gary Alan Fine, Lori J. Ducharme. 4: The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity in the Second Chicago School R. Fred Wacker 5: Chicago's Two Worlds of Deviance Research: Whose Side Are They on? John F. Galliher 6: The Chicago Approach to Collective Behavior David A. Snow, Phillip W. Davis. 7: Transition and Tradition: Departmental Faculty in the Era of the Second Chicago School Andrew Abbott, Emanuel Gaziano. 8: The Chicago School of Sociology and the Founding of the Brandeis University Graduate Program in Sociology: A Case Study in Cultural Diffusion Shulamit Reinharz 9: The Second Sex and the Chicago School: Women's Accounts, Knowledge, and Work, 1945-1960 Mary Jo Deegan Postscript Helena Znaniecka Lopata Appendix One: Ph.D. Degrees in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, 1946-1965 Appendix Two: Faculty in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, 1946-1960 Contributors Index
£104.00
The University of Chicago Press A Second Chicago School The Development of a
Book SynopsisFrom 1945 to 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of students whose work has come to define a second Chicago School of sociology. In this book, sociologists critically confront this legacy and discuss the internal conflicts that call into question the idea of a unified school.
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press Difficult Reputations Collective Memories of the
Book SynopsisPresenting essays on America's most reviled traitor, its worst president, and its most controversial literary ingenue (Benedict Arnold, Warren G. Harding, and Lolita), among others, the author analyzes negative, contested, and subcultural reputations.
£110.77
The University of Chicago Press Difficult Reputations Collective Memories of the
Book SynopsisPresenting essays on America's most reviled traitor, its worst president, and its most controversial literary ingenue (Benedict Arnold, Warren G. Harding, and Lolita), among others, the author analyzes negative, contested, and subcultural reputations.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Shared Fantasy
Book SynopsisThis study analyzes the, often misunderstood, subculture of fantasy role-playing games such as 'Dungeons and Dragons'.Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the behaviour of the players.Trade Review"Fine's analysis of the intricacies of role-playing in context carries an authority and acuteness denied to mere observers.... His inside knowledge enables him to make fine distinctions in the strategies and functions of these games that are lost to most outside analysts." - Bill Ellis, Journal of American Folklore "As an ethnography of fantasy role-playing games and gamers, Fine's book respects his subjects and honors the complexity of their enterprise. And as an analysis of the overlap between that world and other more familiar worlds, Fine's book both honors and clarifies the still incredible skills we nevertheless take so much for granted." - Prue Rains, Sociology and Social Research
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University of Chicago Press Healing Powers
Book SynopsisFocusing on medical norms and practices and on competing philosophies of the mind, the body, reality, and rationality across radically different belief systems, Fred Frohock clarifies the social and legal dilemmas represented by scientific medicine and alternative care.
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The University of Chicago Press Healing Powers Alternative Medicine Spiritual
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The University of Chicago Press An Interpretation of Desire
Book SynopsisSpanning Gagnon's work from the 1970s and extending through to the 1990s, these essays constitute an essential work on the study of sexuality in the twentieth century.
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Dislocating China
Book SynopsisGladney locates China and Chinese culture not in some unchanging, essential "Chinese-ness", but in the context of historical and contemporary multicultural complexity.
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The University of Chicago Press Passionate Politics Emotions and Social
Book SynopsisEmotions are back. Once at the corner of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows, with no place in the rationalistic, structural and organizational models that dominate academic political analysis. This collection of essays reverses the trend.
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The University of Chicago Press The Afterlife Is Where We Come From The Culture
Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of babies, Alma Gottlieb focusses on the Beng people of West Africa. A Beng infant is thought to begin life filled with spiritual knowledge, having been reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world.
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The University of Chicago Press Center Ideas Institutions Ideas and Institutions
Book SynopsisThere are several concepts within the social sciences that refer to the fundamental realities on which the various disciplines focus their attention. The concept of the center, as defined by Edward Shils, has such a status in sociology, for it deals with and attempts to provide an answer to the central question of the disciplinethe question of the constitution of society. Center is a commonly used term with a variety of meanings. According to editors Liah Greenfeld and Michel Martin, center carries a twofold meaning when used as a concept. In its first sense, it is a synonym for central value system, referring to irreducible values and beliefs that establish the identity of individuals and bind them into a common universe. In its second sense, center refers to central institutional system, the authoritative institutions and persons who often express or embody the central value system. Both meanings imply a corresponding idea of periphery, referring both to the elements of society that need to be integrated and to institutions and persons who lack authority. The original essays compiled in this volume examine and apply the concept of the center in different contexts. The contributors come from a broad range of disciplinesclassics, religion, philosophy, history, literary criticism, anthropology, political science, and sociologywhich serves to underscore the far-reaching significance of the Shilsean theory of society. The interrelated subsets of the center-periphery theme addressed here include: symbolic systems, intellectuals, the expansion of the center into the periphery, parallel concepts in the work of other scholars besides Shils, and the paths of research inspired by these concepts. The volume features an introspective essay by Shils himself, in which he reexamines his central ideas in the light of new experiences and the ideas of others, some of them contained in this volume. By drawing together such diverse scholars around a unified idea, this collection achieves a cohesion that makes it an exciting contribution to the comparative analysis of social and cultural systems. A collective effort in social theory, Center: Ideas and Institutions is a testimony to the breadth and complexity of one of man's ideas.
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The University of Chicago Press Marginal Gains Monetary Transactions in Atlantic
Book SynopsisThis study reveals how popular economic systems work in Africa, and elsewhere in the Third World.
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The University of Chicago Press Sociology its Publics The Forms and Fates of
Book SynopsisSociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a sense of disciplinary fragmentation, a decline in the quality of its recruits, the cooptation of its clients, a muted public voice, and sinking prestige in governmental circlesthese are only a few of the trends signalling a need for renewed debate about how sociology is organized. In this volume, some of the most authoritative voices in the field confront these conditions, offering a variety of perspectives as they challenge sociologists to self-examination.
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The University of Chicago Press Drunk Driving An American Dilemma Studies in
Book SynopsisSociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a sense of disciplinary fragmentation, a decline in the quality of its recruits, the cooptation of its clients, a muted public voice, and sinking prestige in governmental circlesthese are only a few of the trends signalling a need for renewed debate about how sociology is organized. In this volume, some of the most authoritative voices in the field confront these conditions, offering a variety of perspectives as they challenge sociologists to self-examination.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Foreign News Exploring the World of Foreign
Book SynopsisForeign News gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Ulf Hannerz also compares the way correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.
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The University of Chicago Press Foreign News Exploring the World of Foreign
Book SynopsisForeign News gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Ulf Hannerz also compares the way correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.
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University of Chicago Press Cosmopolitans and Parochials Modern Orthodox
Book SynopsisFar from simply vanishing in the face of modernity, Orthodox Jews in the United States today are surviving and flourishing. Samuel C. Heilman and Steven M. Cohen, both distinguished scholars of Jewish studies, have joined forces in this pathbreaking book to articulate this vibrancy and to characterize the many faces of Orthodox Jewry in contemporary America. Who are these Orthodox Jews? How have they survived, what do they believe and practice and how do they accommodate the tension between traditional Jewish and modern American values? Drawing on a survey of more than one thousand participants, the authors address these questions and many more. Heilman and Cohen reveal that American Jewish Orthodoxy is not a monolith by distinguishing its three broad varieties: the traditionalists, the centrists, and the nominally orthodox. To illuminate this full spectrum of orthodoxy the authors focus on the centrists, taking us through the dimensions of their ritual observances, religious beliefs, community life, and their social, political, and sexual attitudes. Both parochial and cosmopolitan, orthodox and liberal, these Jews are characterized by their dualism, by their successful involvement in both the modern Western world and in traditional Jewish culture. In painting this provocative and fascinating portrait of what Jewish Orthodoxy has become in America today, Heilman and Cohen's study also sheds light on the larger picture of the persistence of religion in the modern world.
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The University of Chicago Press Portrait of a Green Imagination An Ethnographic
Book SynopsisPart biography and part ethnography, this study aims to contextualize the life of Nenedakis, who endured persecution, exile, imprisonment and torture. It examines the Greek author's novels and recollections as historical accounts, and shows how different perspectives shape the historical record.Table of ContentsPreface 1: Anticipations 2: Provincial Beginnings 3: Crete, Athens, the World 4: Disillusionments of Exile 5: Sentence of Death, Rebuilding the Life 6: Hand to Mouth: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman 7: Sordid Power: Colonels and Exiles 8: From the Cretan War to a Battle of Books 9: Painting an Ethnographic Portrait References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Portrait of a Greek Imagination An Ethnographic
Book SynopsisAnthropologist Michael Herzfeld first met Greek novelist Andreas Nenedakis in the drafty courtyard of a public library. This encounter led to an enduring intellectual relationship that prompted Herzfeld to reconsider both the contours of fiction and the nature of anthropology. Portrait of a Greek Imagination, part biography and part ethnography, is Herzfeld's contextualization of Nenedakis's life, as it was both lived and fictionalized. Herzfeld explores how personal vision intersects with national cultures by examining the Greek author's novels and recollections as historical accounts. Bringing together the methods of the novelist and the anthropologist in their common concern with both social and lived experience, Herzfeld shows how different perspectives shape the historical record. Nenedakis has endured persecution, exile, imprisonment, and torture under Greece's military dictatorship, and his novelsexcerpted here in English for the first timeoffer an individual version of historical events. As one of his characters ask, For was not his life, and are not the lives of all of us, a novel?
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The University of Chicago Press The Body Impolitic
Book SynopsisThe Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the necks of those who are condemned to produce it.
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The University of Chicago Press The Last HalfCentury Societal Change and Politics
Book SynopsisThe Last Half-Century represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship by Morris Janowitz. In this comprehensive and systematic analysis of the major trends in American society during the past fifty years, he probes the weakening of popular party affiliations and the increased inability of elected representatives to rule. Centering his work on the crucial concept of social control, Janowitz orders and assesses a vast amount of empirical research to clarify the failure of basic social institutions to resolve our chronic conflicts. For Janowitz, social control denotes a society's capacity to regulate itself within a moral framework that transcends simple self-interest. He poses urgent questions: Why has social control been so drastically weakened in our advanced industrial society? And what strategies can we use to strengthen it again? The expanation rests in part on the changes in social structure which make it more and more complicated for citizens to calculate their political s
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The University of Chicago Press Character Scene and Story New Tools from the
Book SynopsisWill Dunne first brought the workshop experience down to the desk level with The Dramatic Writer's Companion, offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now writers looking to further enhance their storytelling process can turn to Character, Scene, and Story. Featuring forty-two new workshop-tested exercises, this sequel to The Dramatic Writer's Companion allows writers to dig deeper into their scripts by fleshing out images, exploring characters from an emotional perspective, tapping the power of color and sense memory to trigger ideas, and trying other visceral techniques. The guide also includes a troubleshooting section to help tackle problem scenes. Writers with scripts already in progress will find they can think deeper about their characters and stories. And those who are just beginning to write will find the guidance they need to discover their best starting point. The guide is filled with
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The University of Chicago Press Pragmatism and Social Theory
Book SynopsisRising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism. In this book, Hans Joas shows how pragmatism can link divergent intellectual efforts to understand the social contexts of human knowledge, individual freedom, and democratic culture. Along with pragmatism's impact on American sociology and social research from 1895 to the 1940s, Joas traces its reception by French and German traditions during this century. He explores the influences of pragmatismoften misunderstoodon Emile Durkheim's sociology of knowledge, and on German thought, with particularly enlightening references to its appropriation by Nazism and its rejection by neo-Marxism. He also explores new currents of social theory in the work of Habermas, Castoriadis, Giddens, and Alexander, fashioning a bridge between Continental thought, American philosophy, and contemporary sociology; he shows how the mis
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The University of Chicago Press Big House on the Prairie Rise of the Rural
Book SynopsisFor the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country but is largely concentrated in rural southern towns. In 2007, John M. Eason moved his family to Forrest City, Arkansas, in search of answers to key questions about this trend: Why is America building so many prisons? Why now? And why in rural areas? Eason quickly learned that rural demand for prisons is complicated. Towns like Forrest City choose to build prisons not simply in hopes of landing jobs or economic wellbeing, but also to protect and improve their reputations. For some rural leaders, fostering a prison in their town is a means of achieving order in a rapidly changing world. Taking us into the decision-making meetings and tracking the impact of prisons on economic development, poverty, and race, Eason demonstrates how groups of elit
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The University of Chicago Press Neoliberal Apartheid PalestineIsrael and South
Book SynopsisIn recent years, as peace between Israelis and Palestinians has remained cruelly elusive, scholars and activists have increasingly turned to South African history and politics to make sense of the situation. In the early 1990s, both South Africa and Israel began negotiating with their colonized populations. South Africans saw results: the state was democratized and black South Africans gained formal legal equality. Palestinians, on the other hand, won neither freedom nor equality, and today Israel remains a settler-colonial state. Despite these different outcomes, the transitions of the last twenty years have produced surprisingly similar socioeconomic changes in both regions: growing inequality, racialized poverty, and advanced strategies for securing the powerful and policing the racialized poor. Neoliberal Apartheid explores this paradox. After a decade of research in the Johannesburg and Jerusalem regions, Andy Clarno presents here a detailed ethnographic study of the precariousn
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The University of Chicago Press Citizen Jane Addams and the Struggle for
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The University of Chicago Press Modernity on Endless Trial
Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time.
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The University of Chicago Press Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphasized different features of modern society, they repeatedly invoked Jews as a touchstone for defining modernity and national identity in a context of rapid social change. In Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, Chad Alan Goldberg brings us a major new study of Western social thought through the lens of Jews and Judaism. In France, where antisemites decried the French Revolution as the Jewish Revolution, Emile Durkheim challenged depictions of Jews as agents of revolutionary subversion or counterrevolutionary reaction. When German thinkers such as Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber debated the relationship of the Jews to modern industrial capitalism, they reproduced, in secularized form, cultural assumptions d
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The University of Chicago Press Science Incarnate Historical Embodiments of
Book SynopsisWe have specific images of the kinds of bodies that house great minds. Focusing on the 17th century to the present, this book examines how intellectuals have sought to establish the value and authority of their ideas through public displays of their private life.
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The University of Chicago Press Criticism and Social Change
Book SynopsisCriticism and Social Change speaks with special timeliness to the role of the political intellectual (here embodied in Kenneth Burke). Lentricchia's provocative analysis demands serious reflection by American radicals.Frederic Jameson A profound meditation on relations obtaining among writing, political consciousness, and criticismthis last taken in its most general sense. It is written with passion and grace; it is shot through with learning, intimate knowledge of the critical tradition, and a deep (though by no means uncritical) understanding of the work (as well as social significance) of Kenneth Burke.Hayden White
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University of Chicago Press The Practical Imagination The German Sciences of
Book SynopsisDrawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, this book sets out to illuminate the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during 19th-century Germany. Using information from many sources, it examines the learned disciplines of the time.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: A Theoretical Framework 1: The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Background: Classification 2: The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815: Assimilation 3: The Sciences of State at Their Height, 1815-1840: Deliberation 4: A Period of Transition, 1840-1866: Variation 5: A Truncated Revival, 1866-1890: Organized Research and Charisma 6: The Wilhelminian Era, 1890-1914: Specialization and Clarification Epilogue Appendix: The Data from University Catalogues Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Eros and Inwardness in Vienna
Book SynopsisIn this study David S. Luft has recovered the work of three writers from Vienna who, in addition to Freud, were radically reconceiving sexuality and gender.
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University of Chicago Press General Education in the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisHigher education's most vibrant and contentious issues--common and specialized learning in the curriculum, conceptions of general and liberal education, the design of common core sequences, the merits of classic texts and contemporary research, Western and non-Western course materials, the place of undergraduate teaching in scholarly careers--have for decades been debated by the faculty of the College of the University of Chicago. At the College, they have become embodied in educational programs of sufficient historical depth to reveal patterns of intellectual and pedagogical continuity amidst changing social and institutional circumstances. Social Science 2 holds the place of honor among these educational projects. For more than half a century, Soc 2 has been one of the most influential courses in American undergraduate education. This unique, year-long course, the oldest and most distinguished of its kind at any American university, has served as an ongoing experiment in how the social sciences can be taught and learned in the general education context. In this collection John MacAloon has gathered essays by fourteen eminent social scientists--such as David Riesman, Michael Schudson, and F. Champion Ward--who as either teachers or students were profoundly shaped by Soc 2. Their multifarious and selective memories--full of dissonances and harmonies of recollection, judgment, and voice--create a compelling biography of a course and a college that have survived tumultous change through sustained and committed argument. This book will be of great interest to anyone interested not only in the theory but the practice of higher education.
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University of Chicago Press General Education in the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisHigher education's most vibrant and contentious issuescommon and specialized learning in the curriculum, conceptions of general and liberal education, the design of common core sequences, the merits of classic texts and contemporary research, Western and non-Western course materials, the place of undergraduate teaching in scholarly careershave for decades been debated by the faculty of the College of the University of Chicago. At the College, they have become embodied in educational programs of sufficient historical depth to reveal patterns of intellectual and pedagogical continuity amidst changing social and institutional circumstances. Social Science 2 holds the place of honor among these educational projects. For more than half a century, Soc 2 has been one of the most influential courses in American undergraduate education. This unique, year-long course, the oldest and most distinguished of its kind at any American university, has served as an ongoing experiment in how the social sciences can be taught and learned in the general education context. In this collection John MacAloon has gathered essays by fourteen eminent social scientistssuch as David Riesman, Michael Schudson, and F. Champion Wardwho as either teachers or students were profoundly shaped by Soc 2. Their multifarious and selective memoriesfull of dissonances and harmonies of recollection, judgment, and voicecreate a compelling biography of a course and a college that have survived tumultous change through sustained and committed argument. This book will be of great interest to anyone interested not only in the theory but the practice of higher education.
£36.31
The University of Chicago Press German Idealism and the Jew
Book SynopsisUncovering the deep roots of anti-semitism in the German philosophical tradition, this work offers an analytical account of the connection between the two.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Struggle for Utopia Rodchenko Lissitzky
Book SynopsisFollowing 1917, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged aiming to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of three artists, this book examines the way in which they negotiated the changing relations between their social ideals and political realities.
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The University of Chicago Press Getting Justice and Getting Even Legal
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The University of Chicago Press Social Adaptation to Food Stress A Prehistoric
Book SynopsisCombining anthropology, archeology, and evolutionary theory, Paul E. Minnis develops a model of how tribal societies deal with severe food shortages. While focusing on the prehistory of the Rio Mimbres region of New Mexico, he provides comparative data from the Fringe Enga of New Guinea, the Tikopia of Tikopia Island, and the Gwembe Tonga of South Africa. Minnis proposes that, faced with the threat of food shortages, nonstratified societies survive by employing a series of responses that are increasingly effective but also are increasingly costly and demand increasingly larger cooperative efforts. The model Minnis develops allows him to infer, from evidence of such factors as population size, resource productivity, and climate change, the occurrence of food crises in the past. Using the Classic Mimbres society as a test case, he summarizes the regional archeological sequence and analyzes the effects of environmental fluctuations on economic and social organization. He concludes that th
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The University of Chicago Press Inside Science
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The University of Chicago Press Trustees of Culture Power Wealth and Status on
Book SynopsisWhy do wealthy people choose to serve on the boards of fine arts institutions? How do they exercise their influence as trustees, and how does this affect the way arts institutions operate? This study, based on trustee interviews, addresses these, and other issues.Trade Review"With shrewd insights into the tensions between the social elites who serve as trustees and the professionals who administer these major cultural institutions, Ostrower has useful observations about the many challenges now facing the cultural sector: motivating donors, reconciling the conflicts between fund-raising and governance duties, recruiting more diverse boards, building new audiences, and sustaining artistic innovation and excellence." - James Allen Smith, former board president, Center for Arts and Culture
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The University of Chicago Press After a California Earthquake Attitude and
Book SynopsisShortly before the Loma Prieta earthquake devastated areas of Northern California in 1989, Risa Palm and her associates had surveyed 2,500 homeowners in the area about their perception of risk from earthquakes. After the quake they surveyed the homeowners again and found that their perception of risk had increased but that most respondents were fatalistic and continued to ignore self-protective measures; those who personally experienced damage were more likely to buy insurance. A rare opportunity to analyze behavior change directly before and after a natural disaster, this survey has implications for policy makers, insurance officials, and those concerned with risk management.
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